Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard (12 April 1981-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-HI 2) from 3 January 2013, succeeding Mazie Hirono. She was the first Samoan-American and Hindu to serve in the US Congress.

Biography
Tulsi Gabbard was born in Leloaloa, American Samoa in 1981 to a Samoan father and an American mother, and she embraced Hinduism as a teenager. She entered the US Army in 2004 and rose to the rank of Major after serving in the Iraq War, and she also entered politics as a Democratic Party member. Gabbard served in the State House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004, on the Honolulu City Council from 2011 to 2012, and in the US House of Representatives from 2013. She was a member of the Progressive Democrats, and she supported abortion rights, opposed free trade, called for a separation of commercial and investment banking, supported same-sex marriage, and opposed the US intervention in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.